Container for a Foot(print)

// nfo

Knowlton School of Architecture

Studio Kosnikowski, FA05

// role

idea guy

craftsman

// ingredients

plastic model foot, stitched belt, wood mold, polyester resin

// description

The shoe becomes a metaphor for building. Our connection to the ground, at a personal level, is a synthetic experience, bounded by conventions of the built environment. The object is at once an earnest commentary on our detachment from nature and an ironic manifestation of its own problematics.